Showing results for "Shapes" in Biographies & Memoirs

Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable journey to becoming one of the world’s most distinguished mathematicians. With complicated ideas explained for a broad audience, listeners not only get insights into the life of an eminent mathematician, but also an accessible way to understand advanced and highly abstract concepts in mathematics and theoretical physics.

In 2018, on his way to a family holiday in Cairo, Australian-Egyptian citizen Hazem Hamouda disappears without warning, going missing somewhere between landing and customs. His eldest daughter, Lamisse, has recently moved to Egypt armed with a scholarship to the American University of Cairo, and overnight her world is turned upside down. With little Arabic and even less legal knowledge, she finds out her father has been arbitrarily arrested.

Martin Luther King Jr. may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. But despite his stature, the significance of King's writings and political thought remains underappreciated. In To Shape a New World, Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders.

"Life-affirming and laugh-out-loud funny" - HELEN FIELDING, AUTHOR OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY Shape of a Boy is a hilarious and eye-opening travel memoir by the mother of three boys as she documents her travels with her family around the world. ‘Have kids, will travel’ is veteran travel...

A "riveting" and touching memoir about the understanding one's cultural identity from pastor, business leader, and innovator Dave Gibbons (Makoto Fujimura). A surprising diagnosis of PTSD led Dave Gibbons to look to his past for clues to explain the unexpected result. Born to an American soldier...

Wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears - from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition to frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal's place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change.

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O’Driscoll was taught that strength and stoicism were one and the same. She was also taught that a girl’s job was to take care of everyone else. For decades, she believed these ideas, doing everything she could to try and keep the remaining parts of her family together, systematically anticipating disaster and fixing catastrophes one by one. Truth Has a Different Shape is one woman’s meditation on how societal and familial expectations of mothering influenced her sense of self and purpose, as well as her ideas about caretaking.

Stories come in all shapes and sizes, whether it be from our favourite books, our life experiences or from the day to day challenges we face. Every episode, Lawrence Prestidge will talk to storytellers from a variety of creative industries to find out the stories they have to tell and how those stories shape their lives. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-shapes-of-stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Or, staggering conversations on love, religion, & other intangible pursuits.

Willing and Well is now Taking Shape! Taking Shape is a place to share my own personal journey, as well as stories of survival, inspiration, lessons, and so much more! In addition to regular episodes, Sunday Shorts are being introduced into your ear holes! Follow Taking Shape Now! Find me on Instagram @takingshapepod Follow me personally @ashley_bfit Email me takingshapepod@gmail.com Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mark-july/today-is-the-day License code: ELXVHMPCRSR1NIY6 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/takingshape/support

How Life Shapes Us is a storytelling podcast where everyday people share the pivotal experiences that shaped who they are today. Hosted by journalist and marketer Tesla Mitchell, each episode uncovers real-life moments of growth, adversity, transformation, and meaning.Perfect for curious minds who crave self-reflection, connection, and life lessons that don’t come from a guru—just honest humans figuring it out.✨ Discover how people find purpose through pain, joy through challenge, and clarity through chaos. 🔍 Tune in for deep conversations, unexpected wisdom, and the moments that ...

Willing and Well is now Taking Shape! Taking Shape is a place to share my own personal journey, as well as stories of survival, inspiration, lessons, and so much more! In addition to regular episodes, Sunday Shorts are being introduced into your ear holes! Follow Taking Shape Now! Find me on Instagram @takingshapepod Follow me personally @ashley_bfit Email me takingshapepod@gmail.com Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mark-july/today-is-the-day License code: ELXVHMPCRSR1NIY6 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/takingshape/support

The podcast that brings conversations and REAL life not those from the highlight REEL. We talk about it all. Everything and anything that has shaped our lives. Nothing is off limits. Join me every week either with a guest or going solo, as we go through this journey we call life.

This is a story of a magical life. A young girl with introductions to the elite of the ballet world discovers who she is through romantic encounters in Monte Carlo, Florence, London, New York City, and many more glamorous locations. She leaves the world of dance and becomes a fashion editor at one of the top fashion magazines in the world. But her jet-set celebrity-filled world of fashion does not provide her the happiness she seeks. Through a series of mystical and mysterious events, she awakens to a deeper calling and her true adventure begins.

In stories that shape us, I will share how some stories from our past and also everyday occurrences shape how we see, feel and interact with ourselves and others. Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/storiesthatshapeus/subscribe

Stories That Shape Us is a podcast which celebrates the power of personal stories to inspire and connect us. Everyone has a story worth telling and our aim is to curate life-defining lessons, experiences and stories of people around the world and democratise these to people who need them in their journeys. From tales of personal growth to tales of resilience, we explore how these stories have shaped the lives of our guests and how they can inspire us to live our own lives more fully and empathetically. Join us as we uncover the stories that shape us all.

What Shapes Us is an exploration into the incidents and accidents that shape us into being. Selema Masekela, a relentlessly curious narrator of the human experience, takes us on a journey through personal anecdotes from his own life and in depth, conversational exchanges with a wide landscape of dynamic and interesting individuals. Athletes, activists, artists, critical thinkers, disruptors; anyone with a unique perspective on this thing called life, is welcome to contribute answers to the always evolving question...What Shapes Us

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive? In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they map new global frontiers in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

In this classic and far-ranging portrait of sisterhood Peterson explores a hilarious slumber party, a singing duo of sisters about to find their fame, a Zulu tribe of sisters, the chosen sisterhood of Isabel Allende and Tabra Tunoa, and the sisterhood of animals, such as dolphins and elephants. Weaving memoir, research, interviews, and lively storytelling, Peterson celebrates how the feminine can balance and restore our health and survival. Her well-told insights from psychology, mythology, history, and anthropology reveal the enduring alliance of sisterhoods.

Each episode we share an inspiring guest with a moving story that shines a light on the power of the human spirit. You'll be inspired as we dive deep into their experiences and uncover the gritty and vulnerable details that make us messy and human. This show is about sharing peoples’ stories of overcoming significant adversity in their life. If you've been through, or are going through adversity or transformation in your own life, you'll be moved as you realize that same potential lies within you as well.